John’s parents were told he would be instrument in restoring god’s people.When Mary visited Elizabeth, John leaped inside her womb, symbolically representing the parallels of John's message that would foreshadow, and Jesus' message that would follow.
John the Baptist represented hope for he people he spoke to. At the time people were extremely devastated by the political state of oppression that was being imposed by the militia that occupied their region. People saw John and after listening to him and felt a sense of expectancy. They wanted a force to come and liberate them from their suffering. When John told the people of Jesus, they projected their expectations on him. When John the Baptist cried out in the wilderness, it symbolized the crying out of thousands of people in the region who were in the wilderness of oppression as people who were left destitute by their government, who had also turned their backs on God. John paved the way for Jesus' mission by preaching the gospel of repentance.
Based on the pretext set by John the Baptist, it can be implied that Jesus' teachings will address the need of the people to restore their relationship with God and turn away from their former behavior. This open opposition to the government probably wet the people's appetite for a mass social change that they expected Jesus to bring about. Jesus' message, according to the one that John preached, would probably be one of a complete spiritual revolution.
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